This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Lifting me up like a garage door
I need to feel it when the drug starts coming on
I know you lord are a jealous lord
I know the tablet is your competition
And I need for you to reasonable
How much? She said for three hundred dollars, I'll do it
I need to feel it when the drug starts coming on
I know you lord are a jealous lord
I know the tablet is your competition
And I need for you to reasonable
How much? She said for three hundred dollars, I'll do it
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$300 Lyrics as written by Michael Doughty Mark Degliantoni
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Definitely about drugs (herion):
"Lifting me up like a garage door I need to feel it when the drug starts coming on "
And how he knows god must not be happy with his addiction:
"I know you Lord are a jealous lord I know the tablet is your competition"
But he still continues in the hope god will forgive:
"And I need for you to be reasonable "
I think this line is about buying the drugs:
"How much? She said for three hundred dollars I'll do it "
But I think is should be written like this:
"How much? She said for three hundred dollars. I'll do it "
Not sure what the last bits about rain and skin mean. Must the H talking.
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@Grisnjam (13 years later) Opioids, yes - but smack is never sold as a tablet. Probably Oxycontin or some similar highly priced pharmaceutical painkiller.
@Grisnjam (13 years later) Opioids, yes - but smack is never sold as a tablet. Probably Oxycontin or some similar highly priced pharmaceutical painkiller.
@Grisnjam i totally agree.
I think the sample, "How much? She said for three hundred dollars I'll do it" is part of a joke.
The joke goes something like this: Dude's walking down the street and a hooker comes up to him, and says, "Hey big boy, I'll do anything you want." The dude thinks, and says, "For how much?" She said "For three hundred dollars". He says, "b*tch, paint my house"
I think this might be a Chris Rock joke (or even a sample, although it doesn't sound like him)
doughty said that this song was about addiction: that this song was basically him "pleading with God to let me [m doughty] do drugs..."
the looped clip is chris rock, and i think the joke appeared back-masked somehow on his CD, that is what accounts for the slurred speech.
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@Dead$y i love the way you describe the song, you nailed it
m. doughty is a crazy mothufucka.. i think he's pretending to be deviant in this tune. not your average freelancer/whiteboy. he may have gotten sick of that role.
"I know the skin is a jealous skin." Parallel to "my lord" in the first verse.
"I know the sky is its competition." Consider sky for heavens of for the academic viewpoint that the Judeo-Christian god fits the paradigm of a sky god.
I'm guessing the skin is the addiction with intravenous use. The rainstorm in the first two lines of the verse may imply driving rain hitting the skin like needles - you might expect that the conditioned response for a junkie is the need for the high.
"And I need for you to be reasonable." I.e. how can I quit if the rain you pour down makes me feel the addiction and the withdrawal?
is it just me or am I the only one that can't hear the line "I'll do it"?
Yeah, it's just you. The "I'll do it" kind of rolls off near the end of the line and right into the next "How much?"
it sounds like Visiting Angels by Roni Size that came out the same year haha...
I got nothin', but I swear the second line is "I need to feel it when the girl starts coming on", not "drug". I try and try to hear "drug" but that just doesn't work.
Perhaps I'm just working from a bad rip. Does anyone else hear this?
Okay, okay, I was a dumb bastard. I can hear it now.